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Why would releasing the Epstein files destroy Trump’s presidency?

When I was a kid they played lame music for middle aged people in the supermarket but this morning at Whole Foods it’s now all amazing bangers from my youth.

Libs: Trump is a lawless dictator. Conservatives: The libs are being hysterical. Trump: I believe I should be a dictator who is above the law, like Napoleon.

I respect that Vance acknowledges VP is a fake job and just takes his family on vacation and does tweets.

If you hear someone tell you that the National Park Service spent $1 billion on a survey and your first reaction is “that’s an unbelievable discovery by DOGE” rather than “I do not believe this obviously false claim from DOGE,” then I don’t know how to help you.

Trump is loathsome in many ways but he’s also genuinely very funny when he’s doing jokes. Musk has this palpable desperation to be seen as funny and he’s just really bad at it.

Trump's most impressive moment in the Rogan interview.

In June we had a Democratic state legislator assassinated in Minnesota and another shot by a guy with a list of other victims — Kirk's shooting is hideous and awful and this rising tide of violence is terrifying, but anyone calling it one-sided is lying to you.

The truly high IQ understand that this chart depicts an implausibly large landslide for Harris.

The coolest part of DOGE is that while they crippled medical research and cost-effective foreign aid programs, they also didn’t save any money.

Every halfwit who’s hopped on the MAGA bandwagon goes “he was ALREADY president and he didn’t do all these terrible things the libs warn about.” Meanwhile, half the people who served in his cabinet are warning you he’s dangerously unfit and they were barely able to stop him.

I will bet $200,000 that if Kamala/Walz win, their first move is neither of these things.

Sorry poor people, no money left for your Medicaid we had to give it to David Sacks so he can use it to manipulate the crypto market for the benefit of handpicked insiders.

This is a very unhealthy attitude to have about the country and your fellow citizens

In 1999, a family could afford a suburban McMansion on a single income as a waste management consultant with no college degree.

For all its very real problems, one shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the contemporary United States of America is one of the best places to live in all of human history and there’s a reason tons of people of all kinds from all around the world clamor to move here.

Here’s my pitch, one iPhone screenshot’s worth of principles for Common Sense Democrats to reform governance in the blue zones and be competitive in the red zones — delivering a coalition that can win on health care, reproductive rights, the safety net, and quality for all.

Young men should know that if you vote for Trump you’re basically never going to get laid.

In June we had a Democratic state legislator assassinated in Minnesota and another shot by a guy with a list of other victims — Kirk's shooting is hideous and awful and this rising tide of violence is terrifying, but anyone calling it one-sided is lying to you.

This may not be the incident that sparks it, but they are chomping at the bit for an act of violence that will serve as a pretext for shutting down all opposition politics.

The whole roll call is cringe at its best.

If Biden announced that he’s stepping aside and thinks Democrats should nominate a swing state ticket of Gretchen Whitmer & Josh Shapiro who have solid Democratic values but weren’t specifically involved in his administration it would be universally hailed as a masterstroke.

I feel like Jeffies and Schumer should give Elon Musk a call and tell him about the Democratic Party’s longstanding interest in electric cars, solar panels, space exploration, and balanced deficit reduction.

A lot of Jewish conservatives are really sleeping on the insane levels of antisemitism circulating among new right influencers

If you hear someone tell you that the National Park Service spent $1 billion on a survey and your first reaction is “that’s an unbelievable discovery by DOGE” rather than “I do not believe this obviously false claim from DOGE,” then I don’t know how to help you.

For the first time in my life, I really just think America may be cooked and it’s gonna be the Chinese century. 😬

Millions of people losing their health insurance is not “immaterial.”

This is a very unhealthy attitude to have about the country and your fellow citizens

Every halfwit who’s hopped on the MAGA bandwagon goes “he was ALREADY president and he didn’t do all these terrible things the libs warn about.” Meanwhile, half the people who served in his cabinet are warning you he’s dangerously unfit and they were barely able to stop him.

Everyone seems fine with the switch except Republicans.